Life Quotes

When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.

Viggo Mortensen

I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.

Viggo Mortensen

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them.

Viggo Mortensen

I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.

Viggo Mortensen

At the end of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century in Austria, there was a lot of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in Austria was much more pervasive than in Germany. And Austrians took to Nazi ideas and anti-Semitism much more readily...

Viggo Mortensen

In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

Viggo Mortensen

In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulli...

Viggo Mortensen

There's no sense in doing something, especially if it's a hard job, if you can't have a little fun.

Viggo Mortensen

Any nominations a movie gets helps to raise the level of curiosity in the public, so in that sense awards and nominations are important.

Viggo Mortensen

Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.

Viggo Mortensen

I don't like people who get into fights about football - or anything else.

Viggo Mortensen

Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

Viggo Mortensen

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.

Viggo Mortensen

I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.

Viggo Mortensen

The Holocaust movie is almost a genre in itself these days.

Viggo Mortensen

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

Viggo Mortensen

We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.

Viggo Mortensen

It doesn't take that many years for a kid to realise that they're going to die. It's always there in the back of their mind the rest of their lives.

Viggo Mortensen

I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.

Viggo Mortensen

Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.

Viggo Mortensen

I've never had a problem with people paying attention to what you're doing and say they find that they liked it.

Viggo Mortensen